Mints M. M. “Izuchenie tvorchestva Dzh. R. R. Tolkina kak metodologicheskaia problema” [The study of J. R. R. Tolkien’s fiction as an issue of methodology]. Vestnik Moskovskogo gosudarstvennogo lingvisticheskogo universiteta. Gumanitarnye nauki [The herald of Moscow State Linguistic University. Humanities], no. 7 (2025): 122–28.
The article (in Russian) is an updated version of my previous publication on the subject, this time in a professional academic periodical (or, more exactly, the first part of it; the second part is to be published next year). It deals with such issues as the nature of Tolkien’s creative heritage, interrelation between the texts and the invented world they describe, perspectives and probable directions of further research. My main goal is to lay a necessary basis for interdisciplinary research in the field, as well as for the study of Tolkien’s universe as an imaginary world. My approach to these tasks is based on current methodology of the humanities taking into account the special aspects of the material under review (place and role of the primary source in a research, the study of imaginary worlds).
The published version of the article contains some errors in citations, so I’m posting here not only the PDF file, but also my initial manuscript.